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Doctors and doctors; some curious chapters in medical history and quackery. / By Graham Everitt, Author of "English Caricaturists and Graphic Humorists of the Nineteenth Century".
LIBRA Rare R705 .E92 1888
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Everitt, Graham.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Anecdotes.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Humor.
- Medicine--History.
- History.
- Quacks and quackery.
- History of Medicine.
- Quackery.
- Medical Subjects:
- History of Medicine.
- Quackery.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Humor.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Becker, Joseph M. (former owner)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 422 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of color plates : illustration ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London, Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1888.
- Contents:
- CHAPTER I, Physician and chirurgeon
- CHAPTER II, The Great physician-apothecary war
- CHAPTER III. Some Old Patients
- CHAPTER IV. Some more old patients
- CHAPTER V. The Red Cross on the door
- CHAPTER VI. The old doctor and his remedies
- CHAPTER VII. False pretences
- CHAPTER VIII. Hogarth and the quacks of his time
- CHAPTER IX. Doctors and Patients: an Essay on " Humbug "
- CHAPTER X Mineral waters and the quackery of " Modern Miracles"
- CHAPTER XI. Medicine Mania
- CHAPTER XII. The quackery of American spiritualism.
- Notes:
- Color frontispiece has tissue guard.
- Red-brown cloth binding lettered and decorated in gold.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph M. Becker, M.D. in 2011.
- Kislak Becker copy has protective transparent cover.
- Kislak Becker copy inscribed W. H. Furness? 3rd M.D. from Grandpa Dec 25/'90
- Kislak Becker copy has uncut leaves.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Everitt, Graham. Doctors and doctors.
- OCLC:
- 786612
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